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Posted December 4, 2014, 2:49 pm

Branch antlered bull elk killed near Currant Creek

This bull elk was killed and wasted — likely by a cow elk hunter — in the Currant Creek area.

CURRANT CREEK, WASATCH COUNTY — On Nov. 25, drifting snow was beginning to conceal the evidence when a concerned citizen called the UTiP hotline to report a suspicious dead bull elk in the Currant Creek area.

A DWR officer responded to the area and found a freshly killed bull elk that had been left to waste. The wasted bull was not far from the remains of another elk that had been field dressed. The bull appears to have been shot by an antlerless elk hunter.

The evidence showed that one elk had been field dressed and dragged to the Currant Creek Road on a blue sled. The elk was then loaded into a vehicle. The bull elk had been fatally wounded and died in a stand of Aspen trees just below where it had been shot. The bull was left to waste.

Help protect the future of the Wasatch Currant Creek Unit. If you have any information that could help us identify who may have shot this bull elk, please call the UTiP hotline at 800-662-3337.